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Sam's Three Things About House 4.15: Barenaked Ladies!
1. I totally thought the Mystery Woman was going to be House himself; she had that Mona Lisa* look about her and personally I think it would have been a much better episodic story -- though not necessarily better for the arc, I admit -- if he had been trying to diagnose himself dying from an injury received in the crash.
* It is a popular, if now more-or-less debunked, conjecture that the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait.
2. Goddamn, you guys, Robert Sean Leonard acted his ass off in the final scene where House is trying to tell him that Amber is dying.
3. Those of you who mentioned your inner feminists screaming in anger at the end of S4, I see what you mean now. Cuddy stripping on the bus was pretty offputting; it's hard to enjoy an admittedly great body if you're cringing at the AWKWARD OH GOD AWKWARD of the scene's setup and execution. It is potentially consistent with House's character that he objectifies women and that even his most deeply sexual fantasies involve medical diagnostic criteria, but that was pretty unnecessary. The binding scene is an example of Doing It Right; subtle and fully-clothed intellectual eroticism, mingled with the conversation House had with Amber as he was treating her. The stripping was just Awkwardly Doing It Wrong. There's a difference between a character objectifying a woman and an entire show doing it.
3a. I just want to stick Wilson and House in an MRI lab forever and watch them riff at each other. Wilson and House in the MRI lab is never not funny, especially because for some reason they're always lit green.
Sam's Three Things About House 4.15: Barenaked Ladies!
1. I totally thought the Mystery Woman was going to be House himself; she had that Mona Lisa* look about her and personally I think it would have been a much better episodic story -- though not necessarily better for the arc, I admit -- if he had been trying to diagnose himself dying from an injury received in the crash.
* It is a popular, if now more-or-less debunked, conjecture that the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait.
2. Goddamn, you guys, Robert Sean Leonard acted his ass off in the final scene where House is trying to tell him that Amber is dying.
3. Those of you who mentioned your inner feminists screaming in anger at the end of S4, I see what you mean now. Cuddy stripping on the bus was pretty offputting; it's hard to enjoy an admittedly great body if you're cringing at the AWKWARD OH GOD AWKWARD of the scene's setup and execution. It is potentially consistent with House's character that he objectifies women and that even his most deeply sexual fantasies involve medical diagnostic criteria, but that was pretty unnecessary. The binding scene is an example of Doing It Right; subtle and fully-clothed intellectual eroticism, mingled with the conversation House had with Amber as he was treating her. The stripping was just Awkwardly Doing It Wrong. There's a difference between a character objectifying a woman and an entire show doing it.
3a. I just want to stick Wilson and House in an MRI lab forever and watch them riff at each other. Wilson and House in the MRI lab is never not funny, especially because for some reason they're always lit green.
